Hugging Face and watsonx: Why Open Source Is the Future of AI in Business
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Open-source innovation is the future of AI. In this episode of Smart Talks with IBM, Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford discuss the open-source AI community with Jeff Boudier, head of product and growth at Hugging Face. They chat about the history and future of open-source AI, its critical importance to AI progress, the IBM watsonx partnership with Hugging Face, and how businesses can leverage open-source AI for their specific needs.
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Learn more about the Google DeepMind paper referenced in this episode: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Smart Talks with IBM, a podcast from Pushkin Industries, I heart |
| 0:08.0 | radio and IBM. I'm Malcolm Gladwell. This season we're continuing our conversation with new creators, |
| 0:15.9 | visionaries who are creatively applying technology and business to drive change, |
| 0:20.8 | but with a focus on the transformative power of artificial intelligence |
| 0:25.6 | and what it means to leverage AI as a game-changing multiplier for your business. |
| 0:31.7 | Our guest today is Jeff Bourier, head of product and growth at |
| 0:35.7 | Hugging Face, the leading open source and open science artificial intelligence |
| 0:41.2 | platform. An engineer by background he has a self-professed |
| 0:45.1 | obsession with the business of technology. Recently IBM and Hugging Face |
| 0:50.6 | announced a collaboration bringing together Hugging Faces repositories of |
| 0:55.0 | open source AI models with IBM's WatsonX platform. It's a move that gives businesses |
| 1:02.4 | even more access to AI, while staying true to IBM's |
| 1:06.7 | longstanding philosophy of supporting open source technology. |
| 1:12.2 | With open source, businesses can build better AI models that suit their specific needs, |
| 1:18.0 | using their own proprietary data while browsing a ready catalog of pre-trained models. |
| 1:24.0 | In today's episode, you'll hear why open source is so crucial to the advancement of AI, |
| 1:30.0 | how IBM's Watson X interacts with open source AI and Jeff's thoughts on why the |
| 1:36.6 | singular omnipotent AI model is a myth. Jeff spoke with Tim |
| 1:42.0 | Harford host to the Pushkin Podcast, Cautionary Tales. |
| 1:46.0 | A longtime columnist at the Financial Times, where he writes the undercover economist, Tim is also a |
| 1:51.6 | BBC broadcaster with his show more or less. |
| 1:56.0 | Okay, let's get to the interview. Hi I'm Jeff Bouddier and I'm a product director at Hugging Face. |
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